[filmscanners] RE: CS 5000 ED vs. Minolta ???

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

So Mike what you are saying is that unless the Nikon has a manual focus like
the Minolta does the problem is not correctable with the Nikon scanner but
is correctable with the Minolta; but both scanners have the problem under
the autofocus option.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mike
> Kersenbrock
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 12:55 PM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: CS 5000 ED vs. Minolta ???
>
> lists@lazygranch.com wrote:
>
> >Left out of the review are issues of focus at the edge of the film
> >plane, where some say Nikon doesn't have sufficient depth of
> field to
> >handle film curvature.
> >
> And that's part of the "problem" with the Minolta  (I have
> the 5400 "1") in that the autofocus spot defaults to the
> center, so if there's a curve to the film that may not be the
> best spot (also not good if there are no boundaries there to
> focus on).  One can, of course, easily click-pick the
> autofocus spot somewhere else on the prescan image, but then
> it's not entirely "auto" (and is what I do).
>
>
> Mike K.
>
>
>
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